Tran Van Quang

Tran Van Quang (1917-3 November 2013) was a Colonel General of the People's Army of Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Biography
Tran Van Quang was born in Nghi Loc, French Indochina in 1917 to a family of Vietnamese revolutionaries; his brother Tran Van Cung was the secretary of the first communist cell in Vietnam. Quang joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1936, and he was jailed by the French authorities several times before becoming a Viet Minh commander during the First Indochina War. During the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, he was the head of the Department of Operations, and he became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the People's Revolutionary Party in 1961. In 1965, he became commander of the 4th Military Region, and he became a Lieutenant-General in 1974. In 1984, he was promoted to Colonel General after commanding PAVN forces in Laos, and he died in Hanoi in 2013.